Brooks Koepka took the No. 1 spot in the world ranking from Dustin Johnson, finishing his victory in the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges with a 25-foot eagle putt.
Golf
Centennial won the Class 4A state championship, and Boulder City won the 3A crown.
According to founder Guillaume Béland, the second year for the Major Series of Putting is a “transition year.”
Centennial took the lead after the first day of the Class 4A state girls golf tournament, and Pahrump Valley grabbed the Day 1 lead in the 3A tournament.
When the Class 4A tournament begins Monday at Dayton Valley Golf Course, it will do so without four-time defending champion Coronado, which did not have enough golfers in the region tournament to qualify for state.
Maybe the universe had a hand in guiding Patrick Cantlay to a win at the 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
Jordan Spieth, one of the biggest stars on the PGA Tour and currently ranked 10th in the world, committed on Friday to play in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Nov. 1-4 at TPC Summerlin.
Centennial’s McKenzi Hall won the Mountain Region individual title, and helped the Bulldogs win the team girls golf title. Riana Mission did the same for Clark, winning individually and powering her team to the Desert Region crown.
“The Match,” a $9 million winner-take-all, pay-per-view event between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at Shadow Creek on Nov. 23, will not have any tickets available to the public.
After the first day of the region tournaments, Faith Lutheran (Mountain Region) and Clark (Desert Region) hold a lead going into the final day.
UNLV senior Harry Hall fired a 5-under 65 in the final round to help the Rebels finish eighth Tuesday in the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate at Old Overton Country Club.
Jeremy Roenick was a nine-time National Hockey League all-star and is now an NBC analyst. In his spare time, he wrangles rattlesnakes including a few years ago at Cascata in Boulder City while playing with several Sharks players.
Both Morgan Goldstein and Gracie Olkowski have won a Northwest League match this year, and the Crusaders will rely on them to help deliver the Mountain Region title when the two-day tournament begins Tuesday at Siena Golf Club.
Kevin Tway made a 10-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff Sunday to win the season-opening Safeway Open for his first PGA Tour title.
After more than a month of silence, more details about the match play event between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods have trickled out.
